Views : 657,680
Genre: Education
Date of upload: Premiered Oct 18, 2021 ^^
Rating : 4.931 (659/37,812 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T18:08:52.59935Z
See in json
Top Comments of this video!! :3
My father was bipolar. He only got better at the end of his life because he'd burned all his professional bridges and lived a humble, quiet, steady life away from the power and money his manic charisma attracted when he was younger. Money and power are the most desirable and most destructive things to someone who is prone to manic episodes. Everyone's different, but I can't imagine Kanye will get better so long as he is in the public eye. For his own sake, I hope he finds some way to strip it all away.
Thanks for such a thoughtful and thought-provoking video. Kanye's fall from grace is heartbreaking, I'm happy videos like yours can turn it into something we can learn from.
1.9K |
As someone with bipolar, Iām so grateful no one has handed me a mic during a manic episodeā¦ and meds arenāt some easy fix. Iāve tried more than 40 since I was 17, some landing me in the psych ward. When Iām manic, itās like I have a whole different brain with different values and goalsā¦it really hurts me to see him like this.
448 |
I have bipolar disorder. It is very confusing and I see very similar patterns between Kanye and myself. The nature of bipolar disorder is that it sort of takes you through the entire grieving process in a short period of time. Bipolar disorder is associated with creativity because of the sheer number of times a person suffering will have their mood go down, struggle with it, overcome it and finally push through to the other side and accomplish amazing things. Everyone around you is like "so everything is going great, awesome". Then out of nowhere I end up in the psyche unit of a hospital. I can't count how many times my family has essentially said, "I thought you were over this by now". The condition of bipolar disorder is the cycle, and as far as I know it can only be managed through stress reduction. When you overcome grief, it makes you feel strong, like watching a sad movie with a positive ending. If you go through these cycles rapidly, on and off for several days at a time, you accumulate a collection of conflict and resolution stories. "I struggle over this thing, I overcame it. Then I struggled over this other thing and I overcame it. Then another and another...". It can be both illuminating and deceiving because there is some truth to the growth we gain when we cycle, as though we are really learning lessons about our lives. So for the first 10 years of bipolar disorder you basically think you are just learning life lessons the hard way. After a while it veers into the delusional territory because the veneer of growth and wisdom starts eating away at you. You notice the remarkable consistency of these cycles in spite of everything good and bad that happens, and you finally accept that you have a disorder so that you can find a balance between the highs and the lows.
1.6K |
I've always been hesitant to use the like "separate the art from the artist" phrase because it's not quite accurate to what I ever wanted to say.
"None of us chose to be affected by the art of these flawed and problematic people. And now we are collectively suffering for that very human and very honest connection that we made with art because that arts creator is awful"
Is simply the fucking best way to phrase it I've heard
So thank you for the video and also thank you for this, because it's something I've been struggling to say for years.
2.7K |
As a black woman in the fashion and design industry, I really appreciate you for bringing attention to the fact that Kanye was right. It is very hard for Black people in the fashion industry to get places because we are simply barred from doing so. And while yes Black people donāt really care we should because it is our likeness that literally shapes the entire industry but the people who are profiting from it or not us. And seeing as I am younger, seeing him, go and talk on these interviews was the thing that personally solidified that Kanye was different. That he was smarter and bringing like to issues that people donāt like talking about. And yes, maybe the $2000 dollar shoes donāt seem important to the black community that canāt even afford them but we must realize the thousand dollar shoes influence the $60 shoes that we can afford. Itās a trickle down effect. And we should have a role in shaping that because it is our culture that defines the fashion industry but not our faces. And itās been that way since the 90s. We need to aim higher and not settle for the scraps given to us. If we put a glass ceiling on what we can expect to achieve weāre complacent in our stagnation, for where we are. We are the world so we deserve the world and nothing less.
149 |
I initially watched your Lauryn Hill video because she was a artist who genuinely touched me and was a huge influence on my partner. I clicked on Part 1 of this because I've always heard stuff about Kanye, but only really experienced his music and heard about his life secondhand from people in the know. I didn't expect to be catapulted back into my room, trying to reconcile how injured and hurt I felt by my bipolar brother, with how much pain I could see in him and how much I wanted to help him.
I don't feel comfortable commenting on the racial or spiritual aspects of any of this, as a white Jewish guy it's completely not my wheelhouse, but I can comment on what it's like loving someone with bipolar disorder who is spiraling. The best thing to happen to my brother was a period of isolation and introspection, living on his own and combining, yes therapy and medication, but also with attempts to both apologize, and at the same time be heard by those in his life without them seeing him as a threat. It's so hard because there's not a strict victim/villain dichotomy, you hurt people in your manic episodes, but often because it feels like being an exposed nerve ending.
That moment where he screams about his daughter, and the, I believe genuine apologies he made, yeah maybe he's got healing in him.
That said... the best lesson I learned was to just have boundaries. There's nothing you can do to really help someone in a manic period, so you just protect yourself while constantly signaling that you will be there when they come back down to earth.
Thank you, man (I don't know if FD is your preferred name on the internet?), just subscribed and also joined your Patreon. Can't wait to dig into your older videos, you've got a smart, empathetic, and principled voice.
495 |
1:11:03 - "We're at the point now where, no matter what community you have an affinity for, a musician/writer/comic/artist that you loved or was instrumental to your upbringing - you are now struggling with your support for that artist because they are flawed or possibly even monstrous. Everybody's dealing with this shit now."
That hit me deep.
192 |
@SlickAndroid94
2 years ago
"But Kanye wanted to be Poseidon. He didn't wanna just be the wave, he wanted to control the waters." Damn, brotha. That's some good analogy-making.
2.4K |